Abbreviating Buddism

[mtmynd]

• Abbreviating Buddhism

'Nirvana' is the word used to describe the state of consciousness when 'enlightenment' occurs. It's equal can be correlated to 'heaven'.

'God' is not a Buddhist concept. not that Buddhists do not have 'godliness' towards life, i.e., compassion is the highest quality of love that man can aspire to, but the search for a 'god' that lies beyond ourselves is a futile search. The search is always within.

'Nothingness' is a state achieved when full abandonment of 'mind' occurs. To try and tie this into 'universe' is a poetic conception. Full abandonment of 'mind' brings one into the state of 'full consciousness' or 'awakefulness' that words may say is 'no thingness', slightly different than 'nothingness' in our language, but radically different in conception.

Surely i have abbreviated ideas here for the sake of a simple reply, but further investigation of these words, (god, universe, nothingness), and how they apply to Buddhism are readily available.

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Cecil B. Lee

[judih]

and back to basics. Thanks, Cecil!

[Arcadia]

Gracias Cecil! I'm listening lately to lama Rinchen from the Sakya linaje: it's somehow amazing to listen to the dharma transmission finally directly in Spanish!

[mtmynd]

Many thanks to Judih and Arcadia.